AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i5-2400

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i5-2400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600H beats the Core i5-2400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-2400 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2400. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.